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082	0		_aLAS FIC MON
100	1		_aMonsiváis, Carlos _d(1938-2010)
240	1	0	_aNuevo catecismo para indios remisos. English.
245	1	0	_aA new catechism for recalcitrant Indians _c/ Carlos Monsivais ; translated by Jeffrey Browitt and Nidia Esperanza Castrillon
260			_aMexico _b: Fondo de Cultura Economica _c, 2007, c1982.
300			_a175 p. _c; 21 cm.
520			_aCarlos Monsivais, writer and literary critic, is an indispensable figure in the Mexican literary tradition of the second half of the twentieth century. The present volume culd be taken as a mere selection of short stories based in the principles of Christianity. However, it is a harsh criticism to what Christianity conveys: subordination and submission of confronted ideologies. The book strongly questions the categorization of ideas and the racism that came up when, as Monsivais states, the true religion and nauseous idolatries were established in Mexico. This fable deals with the topic of power over religious beliefs. It presents the conflict between the pagan Indians and their counterpart, the friars, humorously portraying the ways in which religion monopolizes faith. Monsivais ridicules with brilliant irony the vices, abuses, contradictions, and hypocrisies of those who profess the sacred values of the church.
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